Dumile Feni

**Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mhlaba** "**Dumile**" **Feni** (Mekalo tile 21, san 1942 – 1991) tun ye bi waanɛ min bɔra Farafinna Woroduguyanfan. A lakodɔnnen don Katlego Lhuzwayoboth kama. Jɛgɛncogo tun b'a ka jadila n'a ka ɲɛgɛnniw kɔnɔ. U tun bɛ to ka siyawoloma kɛlɛli Farafinna Woroduguyanfan kɔnɔ jira min tɔgɔ ye Apartheid ye. Feni m'a wari soro a ka baara la. Tiɲɛ yɛrɛ la, a tun bɛ jɔnya la ani faantanya jugumanba la.

## Ɲɛnamaya daminɛ na
Feni tun wolola foro sɛnɛyɔrɔ dɔ la Withuis Worcester, Cape Province, Farafinna Woroduguyanfan. A wolofa tun ye Geelbooi Magoqwana, jagokɛla ani kibaru duman fɔbaga. Wa a bamuso tun ye Bettie Nothemba Mgxaji min tun ye jagokɛla muso. A denmisɛnaman, Feni ka denbaya yɛlɛmana ka taa Welcome Estate la, Cape Town. A ka mɔgɔw tun ye San mɔgɔw ye. 

## Baara

Feni ka baara caman tun bɛ siyawoloma tuma jira Farafinna Woroduguyanfan fɛ. Ka damine san 1968 fo k'a ban san 1991, a sigilen tun do bɛ Lɔnduru, Los Angeles ani New York cɛ.  

A yɛlɛmana ka taa Ameriki san 1978. A tun ye dɔnkotigi ye min sigilen tun bɛ Farafinna hadamadenya kalanso la Los Angeles, Kalifɔrni Kalansoba la. 

Mɔgɔ gansan min bɛ Farafinna Woroduguyanfan bi binna tɛ Dumile Feni ka baara dɔn. Wa Farafinna Woroduguyanfan  bi seko ni dɔnko tɔnba b’a wele ko ‘Goya of Townships’. Dumile Feni tun ka ɲi n'a ye kosobɛ .

## Sɛbɛnni-sɛbɛn
Sɛbɛnnikɛlan dɔ bɔra 2010 min tɔgɔ ye ko *Zwelidumile*. A dabɔra Afiriki tilebinyanfan filimu dilabaga Ramadan Suleman fɛ. 

## Mɔgɔ yɛrɛ ka ɲɛnamaya
Feni tɔgɔ fɔlɔ ye Zwelidumile. A kɔrɔ ye "mɔgɔ min lakodɔnnen don jamana fan bɛɛ la". 

Denmuso dɔ tun bɛ Feni bolo min tɔgɔ ye ko Marriam Diale. 

## Ɲɛjiraliw

### Ɲɛjirali minnu bɛ Kɛ u kelen na

* 1965: Transvaal Academy, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1966: Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
* 1966: Gallery 101, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1966: Johannesburg Civic Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1966: Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
* 1966: Republic Festival Exhibition, Pretoria, South Africa
* 1966: SA Breweries Art Prize Exhibition, toured South Africa
* 1966: *Trans-Natal*, Natal Society for Arts, Durban, South Africa
* 1967: Gallery 101, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1967: Transvaal Academy, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1968: Sketches from a Private Collection, Goodman Gallery
* 1969: Grosvenor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
* 1970: Exhibition from the Collection of Desmond Fisher, Goodman Gallery
* 1970: The 51 Club Winter Art Exhibition, Goodman Gallery
* 1975: *South African Sculpture*, Goodman Gallery
* 1981: *Black Art Today*, Jabulani Standard Bank, Soweto
* 1988: La Galleria, New York, NY
* 1989: Portrait of Nelson Mandela for the Pathfinder Mural, New York, NY
* 1990: *Township Art from South Africa*, Applecrest, New York, NY
* 1991: Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
* 2010: *Art on Paper*, MOMO Art Gallery, South Africa

### Jɛkulu ka ɲɛjiraliw

* 1966: *Artists of Fame and Promise*, Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1967: São Paulo Art Biennial, Brazil
* 1967: *Sculpture South Africa, 1900: 1967*, Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1969: *Contemporary African Art*, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
* 1971: Gallery 101, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1972: Gallery 101, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1975: *African Art from South Africa*, Gallery 21, London, United Kingdom
* 1977: *Contemporary African Art in South Africa*, Rand Afrikaans University, Pretoria Art Museum, University of Orange Free State, William Hamphrey Art Gallery (University of Fort Hare)
* 1977: SANG (Cape Town Festival), Gallery 21, South Africa
* 1982: *Art towards Social Development: an Exhibition of South African Art*, National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana
* 1983: United Nations Exhibition, Commemoration of Namibia Freedom Day, New York, NY
* 1987: *Unlock Apartheid's Jails, conference on children under apartheid*, with Bill Cosby and the American Committee of Africa, Hyatt Hotel, New York, NY
* 1988: *Uhuru: an Exhibition of African American Art against Apartheid*, City without Wall Gallery, Newark, NJ
* 1988: *Voices from Exile (Seven South African Artists)*, Washington, DC; Los Angeles, CA; Houston, TX; Philadelphia, PA
* 2010: MOMO Art Gallery, South Africa

## Jara minnu bɛ di

* 2003 sàn: Ikhamanga ka yamaruya sanu na, ka da a ka seko ni dɔnko la 

## Baara ni gafe sugandilenw

* Feni, Dumile, and Bruce Smith. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20230613090118/http://www.johansborman.co.za/artist-biographies/feni-dumile/ Dumile: Artist in Exile]*, South Africa: Bruce Smith in association with *Art on Paper,* 2004.    

## Sɛbɛn minnu bɛ tali kɛ o la

## Kɛnɛma jɛgɛnw

* Zwelidumile at IMDb
* https://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/DUMILE.htm
* http://www.pelmama.org/DUMILE.htm